Richard H Block

Practice Areas

Richard H. Block is a partner in Barton’s labor and employment practice. Dick routinely represents management clients in collective bargaining negotiations and complex employment litigation. He regularly conducts human resource investigations, discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, and contract litigations. Dick represents both companies and executives in the negotiation of employment, equity, and severance agreements. He advises and trains clients on employment and labor issues including sexual harassment prevention, personnel policies, employee discipline, layoffs, equity and compensation arrangements, independent contractor matters, disability and leave issues, employee handbooks, and a broad range of collective bargaining matters.

Nationally recognized within the labor and employment field, Dick’s clients include Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, insurance companies, entertainment companies, cultural and nonprofit institutions, real estate firms, and healthcare organizations.

Dick has earned recognition by Chambers USA, the foremost legal data and analytics provider that ranks the top lawyers and law firms in America, as a leading practitioner in Labor & Employment and Labor Relations. He has an “AV Preeminent” peer review rating in Martindale, the highest rating in the legal profession for professional excellence and ethical standards, and has also consistently been selected to Super Lawyers in Thomson Reuter’s annual survey of the top 5% of lawyers in the New York Metro Area, 2012 to present.

Dick is a frequent lecturer who has spoken in front of such entities as American Express Tax and Business Services, Inc., the Institute of Management and Administration, the Investment and Financial Services Association, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University’s Annual Conference on Labor, and the New York City Bar.

Prior to joining Barton, Dick was a partner in the New York office of Am Law 100 Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, PC.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association, Member

CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, Member

Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, Member

Partridge-Invitation Scholarship Foundation, President

The Princeton Club of New York City

President

Member, Board of Governors

Past Member, Board of Community Access for the Mentally Ill Homeless

Past Member, the New York Board of the Simon Wiesenthal Tolerance Center

Past Member, Princeton University Alumni Advisory Council for Human Resources